Derek Franklin

Gray Minstrel

Opening Reception

Press

Carl & Sloan Contemporary is pleased to present Gray Minstrel, New York artist Derek Franklin’s first solo exhibition in Portland, Oregon in eight years. Gray Minstrel includes new paintings and sculptures and opens Thursday, June 18, 2015, 6–10pm and will run until August 2.

Let us be intimate with our ancestral ghostsSing the songs that old women used to singAnd blow a communal wind that unites a germ traveling to communionThere was a partition where our dominance pulled the gemsFrom your ground imbued with witnessThis partition, identical to the screen created by waterBetween the crayfish and me, exists all of my love for youJoined only by the yarn, cast to procure desireLike the soft violence of the piperThe odd stillness of the bodies wrenched outExcite in ways that feel anointedLike the cinematic I eat from the feedOur arms were given to us to carry the impressions Which swing to imitationsFor current MINSTRELSThat Turkey Trot Abhorrence into our liveswithout a trace

Gray Minstrel by Derek Franklin opens Thursday, June 18, 2015, 6–10pm and will run until August 2. For more information, please contact the gallery at 360.608.9746 or info [at] carlsloan.com

Derek Franklin

Derek Franklin, b. 1981 in St. Helens, OR, lives and works in Newark, NJ. He has exhibited at Thierry Goldberg, Simone Subal, Soloway, and Rawson Projects, in New York. Franklin has also exhibited with Document, Andel 31, Vertigo Art Space, Shore Institute for Contemporary Art, First Street Gallery, PDX Contemporary, and Pulliam Gallery. He holds an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, 2012, and a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art, 2009. Franklin is also a partner and director at the artist run space Soloway in Brooklyn, NY.